Who we are
Wert-Berater, Inc. has prepared independent feasibility studies for lenders, certified development companies, and federal agencies since 1998 — more than four thousand engagements representing $40.2 billion in evaluated project value across all fifty states and international assignments. Our fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the agency, never to the sponsor’s optimism: fees are fixed, quoted up front, never contingent on findings, and a determination is never changed under pressure.
What we do
Veterinary facilities — general practices, emergency and specialty hospitals, and large-animal clinics — combine retail-medicine demand with a cash-pay reality that simplifies the payer question and sharpens the demographic one: pet-owning households, their density, and their documented spending define the market. The study sizes demand from household and pet-ownership data against the competitive census including corporate consolidators, models revenue per veterinarian against the category's production benchmarks, and tests the staffing plan against the veterinarian shortage that constrains the entire sector — recruiting reality is a feasibility factor, not a footnote.
How we do it
Demand from pet-owning-household density and spending benchmarks, production modeling per DVM at documented revenue norms, service-mix analysis where boarding, grooming, or emergency lines layer onto practice revenue, and recruitment-market analysis treated as the binding constraint it currently is.
How we can help you
Owner-veterinarian projects fit SBA structures directly; emergency and specialty hospitals at scale route conventional; rural large-animal practices can reach USDA frameworks. The engagement pairs the firm's professional-practice discipline with its agricultural record where large-animal and mixed practices serve producer communities.
How to engage us
Standard delivery is 10 to 15 business days from complete project data. Rush delivery for deals already in underwriting is accepted case by case for an additional fixed fee, quoted up front and committed in writing. Engagements are typically initiated by the borrower, with lender or CDC confirmation obtained before work begins — institutions differ, so confirm the procedure with your lending contact.